The Indies played a great role in history. The land was originally home to the indigenous. After the trans-Atlantic expedition the Spanish settled in the indies area for the first 28 years taking over the land and people.
Basically one company thats divided up in diffrent stages that are run by separate companies.
Because males were returning from war, the females who previously held the males' positions in factories, etcetera, were either forced out of these jobs, or were permitted to keep them, a trend that destroyed the idea of the "stay-at-home mom".
As the demand for slaves grew, the Portuguese began to enter the interior of Africa to forcibly take captives; as other Europeans became involved in the slave trade, generally they remained on the coast and purchased captives from Africans who had transported them from the interior.